Cycle-saddle.



No. 695,!42; Patented Mar. Il, |902.

W, BRAMPTN.

CYCLE SDDLE.

4App1icaton led Oct. 26. 1901.)

(jdo Model.)

A TTOHNEYS FFICE.

NVALTER BRAMPTON, OF DORRIDGE, NEAR BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

CYCLDSADL.

SPEGIFIGATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,142, dated March 1]1902.

Application filed October 26,1901. Serial No. 80,095. (No model.)

To all whom it muy concern.

Be it known that I, WALTER BRAMPTON, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, and a resident of Moorside, Dorridge, in the county of Warwick,England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCycle-Saddles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object improvements in cycle-saddles by which Iam enabled toincrease their resiliency, thus making them morecomfortable for riding.

In carrying my invention into practice I form with or attach to the backor rear of the leather seat of a cycle-saddle an extended or projectingportion or portions of leather, and to 4the rear edge of this extendedportion I fix a metal plate or band to which the rear end or ends of themetal frame of the saddle are4 secured, the front of the frame beingattached to the nose or pommel of the saddle in the usual manner. Theusual cantieplate for keeping the leather seat extended or in shape isattached to the seat in the ordinary manner. It will thus be seen thatas the saddle-seat is suspended in the frame by the extended portion andthe pommel end the resiliency of the saddle is increased and the jar oreffect caused by the metal frame being connected to the cantle-plateisavoided.

In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easilycarried into practical effect, I have appended hereunto asheet ofdrawings upon which I have illustrated an example of my new saddle. Itmust, however, be understood that various forms of saddles and varietiesof underframes may be used without departing from the broad principle ofmy invention.

Figure l is a general plan looking upon the leather cover or top A ofone of my saddles which shows the extended part A of the cover. Fig. 2is an inverted plan ofthe same saddle, showin g a frame and itsattachments, but other formations of frames may be used instead of theone shown. Fig. 8 is a part section and part elevation looking at theside of the same saddle.

It will be observed that the underframe F :is not directly connected tothe cantle-plate P, but to a further or supplemental cantlcplate P',whichis much shorter than the usual cantle-piate P,which extends acrossthe broadest part of the cover A, keeping it in shape, and thisplate'simply stifens the leather cover A. The leather cover A, however,extends to the supplemental short cantle-plate P and is attached andsecured thereto by rivets or other fastenings r'. Similar rivets 7"secure the cantle-platel? to the leather cover. The particularunderframe shown to illustrate the principle finishes with coils f andoutward projections f2, which take into ears E, which are fasti to theshort cantle-plate P, and permit a cert-ain amount of freedom ormovement when in use. The connection therefore between the supplementalcantle-plate P and the usual cantle-plate Pl is entirely and wholly madeby the extension 'of the leather covering A', which narrows off to P.This connection through the leather covering constitutes a most simplemeans of allowing a restrained movement or oscillation of thecantle-plate P both at its ends and other parts, soas to avoid extremestiffness or undue looseness. Saddles have been previously tried withspiral-spring extensions to a back cantle-plate g but they were not asuccess, and other saddles have been tried with a supplementalcantle-plate and lever or rod connections to the same; but I find thebest results are obtained in the most simple manner by the extension ofthe leather or its equivalent covering without any other connectionbetween the frame and the cantle-plate P. The frame carries any of theusual bosses B to fasten to the cycle.

In a saddle, a suitable supporting-spring, a curved cantle-plateconnected to the rear thereof, a saddle-leather secured to the saidplate at its rear end and to the spring at its front end, and a secondbar curved substantially concentric with the cantle-plate and securedsolely to the saddle-leather in advance of said plate, substantially asdescribed.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twowitnesses.

WALTER BRAMPT'ON.

Witnesses:

I-I. W.. DnNToN INGHAM, HECTOR C. GRUNDY.

